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Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Mission

The members of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, in partnership with the community, are dedicated to excellence in the delivery of public safety services.

Our Vision

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office is committed to an ongoing partnership with the community based on communication, cooperation and trust. This partnership will promote an environment that ensures safety and peace, while treating all persons with respect and dignity.

Our Values

Professionalism: While leading by example, we are committed to excellence, honor, and valor in the performance of our duties.

Accountability: Through communication and cooperation we strive to build community confidence with sensitivity to the diversity of all people, holding all employees to the highest standards of professional conduct.

Integrity: Dedication to the ethical standards of honesty, humility, fairness, and respect.

Trust: Through teamwork to instill mutual respect between ourselves, and to promote confidence within the community.

Commitment: To these principles, to the public, and to Law Enforcement Code of Ethics.

Service: To our community with professionalism, meaningful responses and legendary quality.

Executive Staff

Margaret MimsSheriff

Steve WilkinsUndersheriff

Tom GattieAssistant Sheriff

Greg GularteCaptain

Jennifer HortonCaptain

Robert KandarianCaptain

Ron VegaCaptain

Steve ForkerAdministrative Services Director

Fresno Sheriff Margaret Mims

Margaret Mims has been a peace officer since January l980. She was elected to the office of Sheriff in November, 2006, becoming the 25th person to hold that office in Fresno County. She was the first female deputy sheriff Sergeant to supervise field patrol units. She was the first female deputy sheriff to attain the rank of Lieutenant, Captain, Assistant Sheriff, and to be elected to the office of Sheriff in the history of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office which was established in 1856.

Margaret is a member of the Fresno Cultural Arts Rotary Club, the Caruthers Kiwanis Club and is on the Board of Directors of the Marjoree Mason Center, a local women's shelter. She has served as a past member of the Fresno County Rape Counseling Service Board of Directors. She is a member of the California Peace Officers' Association, the California State Sheriffs' Association, and the American Legion Auxiliary.

She is a graduate of Fresno Pacific University, and has her Masters Degree in Public Administration from National University. She is a graduate of California POST's (Peace Officer Standards & Training) Supervisory Leadership Institute and she is also a graduate of the Senior Management Institute for Police coordinated through Boston University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Recognitions:

1998

Recipient of the Fresno Exchange Club "Top Cop" award

1999

Chosen as one of Fresno County's Top Ten Business/Professional Women of the Year

2001

Recipient of a "Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award" from the National Center for Women in Policing.

Feb 2005

Highlighted on KFSN, Channel 30 (ABC) Person of the Week

2007 & 2008

Selected as Best Local Female Elected Official by Fresno Magazine

March 2007

Recognized as the 31st Assembly District Woman of the Year

2008

Recognized as one of Business Street Online "Influential Women 100" of Fresno

Feb 2009

Received an Award of Heroism and Lifesaving by the Fresno County Board of Supervisors, City of Fresno, & Fresno County Council of Governments

Feb 2010

California Rifle and Pistol Association Peace Officer of the Year for the State of California

July 2010

Fresno City College Centennial Alumna one of their "100 Stars for 100 Years"

After her 2008 breast cancer diagnosis, Sheriff Mims became an outspoken advocate for early detection.

Peace Officer Code of Ethics

As a Law Enforcement Officer, my fundamental duty is to serve mankind; to safeguard lives and property; to protect the innocent against deception, the weak against oppression or intimidation, and the peaceful against violence or disorder; and to respect the Constitutional rights of all persons to liberty, equality and justice.

I will keep my private life unsullied as an example to all; maintain courageous calm in the face of danger, scorn or ridicule; develop self-restraint; and be constantly mindful of the welfare of others. Honest in though and deed in both my personal and official life, I will be exemplary in obeying the laws of the land and the regulations of my department. Whatever I see or hear of a confidential nature or that is confided to me in my official capacity will be kept ever secret unless revelation is necessary in the performance of my duty.

I will never act officiously or permit personal feelings, prejudices, animosities or friendships to influence my decisions. With no compromise for crime and with relentless prosecution of criminal, I will enforce the law courteously and appropriately without fear or favor, malice or ill will, never employing unnecessary force or violence and never accepting gratuities.

I recognize the badge of my office as a symbol of public faith, and I accept it as a public trust to be held so long as I am true to the ethics of the police service. I will constantly strive to achieve these objectives and ideals, dedicating myself before God to my chosen profession: law enforcement.